For those working close to former president Donald Trump during his presidency, exposure to acts of “naked sexism” were a regular part of the job, according to a former staffer and whistleblower. Miles Taylor, served as the chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during Trump’s term and famously criticized the president in a revealing 2018 op-ed in The New York Times under the pen name Anonymous.
Now, Taylor has released a new book titled Blowback: A Warning To Save Democracy From The Next Trump in which he exposes Trump’s presidency from the inside and investigates what risk re-electing Trump, or any MAGA supporters, could pose. Among the many alleged examples of Trump’s sexism is one particularly horrific instance of the president engaging in a crass discussion about his own daughter, Ivanka Trump. But, unsurprisingly, Trump didn’t exclusively reserve his sexism for his own daughter.
In the book, Taylor described Trump’s “undisguised sexism” toward women in varying levels of seniority in his administration but says he witnessed several instances in which former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was the victim of the now-77-year-old’s comments. “When we were with him, Kirstjen did her best to ignore the president’s inappropriate behavior,” Taylor writes. “He called her ‘sweetie’ and ‘honey,’ and critiqued her makeup and outfits.” Taylor claims Nielsen told him: “Trust me, this is not a healthy workplace for women.”
In another exchange, Taylor...
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